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Tech Q&A: Getting Tunes Off of an iPod (PC)

by Tom Conlon on May 25, 2007 at 04:46 PM

Tech Q&A: Getting Tunes Off of an iPod (PC)
Last week, we helped a reader get his music files from his iPod back onto his Mac after a hard drive meltdown. Of course, we should have guessed that another reader would write in wondering how she could do the same trick on a PC. As it turns out, it's even easier on Windows (did we really just say that?).

Connect your iPod to your PC, wait for iTunes to start up, then right-click the iPod icon in the left-hand menu pane. Select 'iPod Options' and check the 'Enable Disk Use' box.

Now your iPod will be visible as a disk when you double-click on 'My Computer' on your desktop. Double-click the iPod disk icon, which will open up as a folder. Go to 'Tools,' 'Folder Options' and click on the 'View' tab. Click the 'Show hidden files and folders' button and then click 'OK.'

We've just told Windows to show us all of the files and folders that it normally doesn't show because they're of no use to the user. In your iPod folder, you'll now see some new folders that weren't there a second ago. Open the 'iPod_Control' folder, then the 'Music' folder. Your music files are inside all of those strangely numbered subfolders.

Simply copy all of these subfolders, or just the contents of each, over to a new folder on your desktop and you're done!

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